Strykar

The past is a good indication of where things are headed, all events aren't orthogonal. Your post isn't offensive, in fact it shows the faith you have in the teams chemistry. Good stuff, here's hoping it makes for more fun games. If anyone was discouraged by my original post, they need their heads examined.

You must be new, the last time AF did a pros vs pubs, the pubs won. 6 Pros are not gonna ream out a team of 9 good pubbers, atleast not everytime.

Necropop. Just hadda - read all the posts and some of the ghey in this thread..

Yes, we all know instant messaging started with Facebook chat! A better alternative to mIRC circa 2012 is Hexchat (formerly xchat): http://www.hexchat.org

Goldrush, Dustbowl, Badwater - The others just plain suck with new players. Impose class limitations for commonly abused classes like sniper, spy, sniper and snipers. How about a map won't start till there is 1 medic for every 6 players? This alone will improve the quality of the game by orders of magnitude. To the OP, "Where are the good pubservers at?", the one where spammah is playing obviously. P.S. I miss #5 and #6 too.

Also, the casts would be much better if you guys let that girl talk, she was smart and had a nice voice to boot. And our Engie, Zeet, had 70 hours of total TF2 playtime, shycuna raped her happiness, the bullying bastard.

Headshotted by Nata Post fixed.

Nice tourney, was good fun. Thanks a lot to all the organisers. It was cool having someone comment on your game even if you were the fail demo Madman and Nata are good commentators, the others need to keep their dick in their pants when on mic. Perhaps, just have 3 ppl cast so there's chemistry in the conversation instead of 7 ppl on at the same time? Also, why does Cake have that poor special-needs child as his spray, that's just mean.

Aeta's steam ID isn't working, I have asked him to correct it. And if bear is playing for that team we'd like to have nata on ours mmkay

Please correct your Steam ID link mate. It ain't working.

Team Name : Texas Chicken Name: TENAXIS Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/TENAXIS/ Class(s): Soldier, Heavy, Medic, Spy Availability: ALL DA TIME COS I GRADUATED :3 Note: if possible same team as Ajoc6 Name: Ajoc6 Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198012980602/ Class(s): Heavy, Scout Availability: After 24th June Note: If possible, same team as TENAXIS Name: Alnanaz Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197976412614/ Class(s):Scout,Solly,Spy. Availability: Night Name: Zeet Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Zeratsr/ Class(s): Medic, Engine Availability: Night Name: Jaehae Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/JaeHae Class(s):Scout,Solly,Spy,Demoman,Medic Availability: Night Name: Aeta Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/aeeii Class: Engi/Spy ( Name:wiloN Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/wilson-ftw/home Class(s):Soldier, Scout, Sniper, Pyro Availability: Anytime Name: denmax Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/denmax Class(es): Scout, Soldier, Demoman, Medic, (EDIT: forgot to mention: Pyro) Availability: Any time but midnight (GMT +8) Name: Draco Steam Community Link: http://steamcommunity.com/id/flamedrac0 Class(s): Pyro Availability: Not available on Sunday until 4pm. Strykar http://steamcommunity.com/id/strykar Demo Admin in charge - Tenaxis (Different from the Mom's been had in ten axis')

Strykar http://steamcommunity.com/id/strykar Demo

This week, we bring you the first in a series of interviews of people in the Asian PC gaming scene. Our man in the chair today, is better known as spammah, or Anas (yes he knows the wordplay that brings about). He runs www.gaming420.com and is often seen playing on the Asian StarHub servers. We ask the man some pressing questions, and, he, in his unequivocal style gives us some surprisingly frank answers. He let's us know his take on the current gaming scenario, his opinions on some of the older players and people in the scene. But perhaps, most importantly, he let's us know how he got into competitive gaming. A must read for younger players wanting to compete. WARNING: Some strong language. Hi spammah, could you give us a small introduction on yourself? Hi. My name is Anas. I'm from the United Arab Emirates. I play video games on a semi-competitive level and I love trolling in public servers in any game. When did you start gaming, and when did you go competitive, semi-ish like you say? The earliest memory I have is playing Wolf 3D or Doom or Pornpipe back in '95 or '96. I can't remember exactly since I was such a little shit back then. The first game I remember playing seriously was Quake 1. But it was not till the release of Quake 3 in '99 which really brought out the competitive nature in me to play professionally and drove me onward. Although I had success from very early on, there was little reward which spawned a whole new cynical side to the competitive aspect of things in my region. Tell us a little bit on your current involvements in competitive game play? I currently play Counter-Strike 1.6 competitively in my country with a top team. I'm also involved with www.Gaming420.com which focuses on grassroots competitive gaming news and events in Asia and the Middle East. And an occasional scrim or two in Team Fortress 2 with team Nefarious. You are what some would call an 'old-timer', how far would you say the "scene" has come against 4-8 years ago? Mixed bag of feelings. I miss the old days where people were willing to try out new things, expand their range of knowledge and experience on stuff, actually put in the effort to improve their skills and not emoquit after getting raped in one match etc and continue to play the game they like or love for the sake of their passion. Back then, we would play our favorite game regardless of bad internet connections, casual or competitive atmosphere, crappy PCs, etc. As technology and video games have progressed, the learning curve and the exercise of actually using and working YOUR F***ING BRAIN has decreased dramatically. Things these days are handed to you in a silver platter. Back then, you had to put up and push forward with limited choices and environments. In the competitive setting today, if someone gets r**ed then he uninstalls the game and proceeds to play FarmVille on Facebook. To answer your question, the scene improves, player population rises, hits a peak and then goes through a steep decline until the only active players left on the scene are the hardcore ones and continues till the game fades away into obscurity and becomes a legend etc. So how far as the scene come along since the past 4-6 years? Not far. What do you feel could be done to help improve the situation for competitive events/players/sponsors in the Asia-Pac region? To improve the competitive scene in Asia, people have to start giving a f**k. It's as simple as that. What I currently see in the Asian gaming scene in general is a whole lot of skepticism, cynicism, uncaring and faggotry. In a way, it boggles my mind as I don't know why I see the SAME uncaring players spout their cynical nonsense and STILL be playing competitively everyday. Either put up or shut up (and continue playing). I've heard that the scene's been tainted with a lot of biz-types who've tried to make a quick buck and scam the competitive community etc. But that is still no excuse for the community to just keep silent and take it in the b**th*le like a subservient b**ch. You need things to change? Participate actively in community events, get yourself involved in healthy mature discussions, do whatever you can to ensure good 'clean' game play. Stop regressing into your "ah whatever laaaaaaaaah" shell at the first signs of troll from other idiots. Take a few lessons from the pubbers community and mentality and try to apply it in your competitive environment and vice versa. Remember that whatever benefits you reap in your competitive setting will ultimately influence and improve the 'pub' experience too. Things like sponsors and other 'free' crap are the last thing that you should want to think about. Make the sponsors approach YOU and not the other way around. Take charge and get a few fellows to help share the burden. And the best part about it is, if you have a group of individuals who 'care', you will not have to dedicate as much time or effort as you think you might have to. What avenues do Asian players have to start getting competitive experience besides events like the Asia Fortress League (AFL) cup? Play Division 2 of AFL. That's where new teams and players can take their time and learn the tricks of the trade. Or join the pug servers to get a feel of mixed matches. How is this different from the avenues budding European and North American players have? Those communities use IRC and TF2 (gaming) lobby. Where as we use a steam group announcement and captain teams in server. So pugs and nothing else? There have to be leaders, from these new teams, and groups of players, to captain, lead and form new teams. Just play and stick around. How many hours should an average player spend practicing if they wanna play competitively? That's a tough one. Depends on a lot of factors such as the community skill level, population, players free time, motivation factor etc. It's very region dependent too. I'd safely say that you'd have to put in a lot more hours of practice in a larger/diverse competitive player base. Thanks a lot for your time. Is there anything else you'd like to say to readers and the Asian community? I'd just like to say, WAH LAO! Peace, b***hes. spammah's game stats can be viewed at http://www.esreality.com/?a=users&user_id=14827

Here we go again.

This coming from the winner of the Happiest Player award..

Insanely mad fun! MOAR Degroot. Nobody is gonna believe me (save my team Narnia who were stupefied when I said this was the first time I was playing the map at match start), but teh fekking walls kept coming towards me when I had the Caber :S Also, clearly this match type requires no skills as spammah was MVP on a round. SRSLY!?? Gratz to the winners! Don't roll in it, Narnia'll be back bishes.

Strykar http://steamcommunity.com/id/strykar Available at most times. Preferred class: Demoman Secondary: Soldier/Engineer/Spy/Medic/

Can we pls have a decent pro team, plenty of pubbers?

Signing up for the pubs - Demo/Spy/Engie/Solly

Nice, dark scout looks cool.

Where are the Pro's? There are enough pubbers wanting to play, will start spreading the word in-game. Cancel this and feel my wrath on the SH servers bishes

Wish, could you mentor me on the ways of the Demoman? http://steamcommunity.com/id/strykar

With my intwarwebs going off (Airtel) at the start of the first map, and then trying to demo with the team.. it wasn't the best start. Then I met the Pro's Scouts.. alone. I didn't realize how safe I started playing after that 4-0 kd ratio with them till I watched Sifu's PoVs and saw Krogoth saying, "strykar play aggressive la"! Aw Krog, if I'd seen that in-game I would have been more aggressive. Those scouts r4p3d the Scotsman in me and I spazzed out on the cp maps. And I'm not from .sg

Was good fun, I had Internet issues at the start of the first map. Nothing on Gamestah so far, if anyone gets links to vids of the match, please post. And.. Rematch!

Can we all play together and r4pe another team on a pub before the weekend? Impulse, there's more beer for you if you keep me alive whilst the scouts are skinning me